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Eat Bugs To Save The Planet

FITNESS CRITIC

We’re a month away from going over budget in using this year’s planetary resources. One way to balance our ecological books is to eat more insects.

Johnny Adamic

Updated Oct. 11, 2019 3:38PM ET / Published Jul. 11, 2015 12:00AM ET 
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Wong Campion/Reuters

By mid-summer of each year, we use up the Earth.

Known as Earth Overshoot Day, it’s the day, sometime in August, when our yearly demand for ecological resources exceeds how much the planet can replenish those resources for the year. Soon after August 15, this year, Earth will be operating on a deficit.

All the while, the population of Earth is growing. It’s estimated there will be 9 billion people by 2050, an additional 2 billion than now.

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